A Life-Changing Insight Into Listening

[UnbornTao]

It's your job to have it.

For one week, contemplate what listening is and what it requires.

Try to set aside your own baggage - especially what you think you already 'know' - and question what this act really is.

Other related questions:

• What is the act of paying attention?
• Why am I listening (hearing or reading) to this communication - or manipulation?
• What am I trying to get out of it?
• How can I step out of my own intellectual world so that I can better hear?
• Where is this person coming from, and what is their experience?

Or simply: What is actually going on in the other person's experience?

Edited 14 hours ago by UnbornTao

[AtmanIsBrahman]

Notice listening requires someone you’re listening to. It’s fundamentally a giving away of authority.

Obviously we can learn from people, just have to be careful and aware of what you’re doing. Just felt the need to add this in here 😁

[Davino]

@UnbornTao Interesting exercise, I'll contemplate this week and see.

[UnbornTao]

31 minutes ago, AtmanIsBrahman said:

Notice listening requires someone you’re listening to. It’s fundamentally a giving away of authority.

Obviously we can learn from people, just have to be careful and aware of what you’re doing. Just felt the need to add this in here 😁

I think I understand what you mean, but I'd consider that worry unwarranted here. Listening is not about you!

It's about the other person's experience.

[UnbornTao]

24 minutes ago, Davino said:

@UnbornTao Interesting exercise, I'll contemplate this week and see.

💪

[No1Here2c]

@AtmanIsBrahman

38 minutes ago, AtmanIsBrahman said:

Notice listening requires someone you’re listening to. It’s fundamentally a giving away of authority.

I would argue Listening is a taking back of authority. It is a conscious directing of your energy/attention, and where it is being placed within the field of Consciousness.

Edited 14 hours ago by No1Here2c

[Joseph Maynor]

Listening is part of Love too in the sense that everyone has something slightly different to say.  This should be expected and appreciated.  This is what allows people to feel safe around you.  Truth contains every finite perspective.  Love is the embodiment of this insight.  

[UnbornTao]

1 hour ago, Joseph Maynor said:

Listening is part of Love too in the sense that everyone has something slightly different to say.  This should be expected and appreciated.  This is what allows people to feel safe around you.  Truth contains every finite perspective.  Love is the embodiment of this insight.  

How long have you done the exercise?

Edited 12 hours ago by UnbornTao

[Hojo]

@AtmanIsBrahman you can listen to anything. Things that are not people. Or even silence.